The brand new 1532 Performing Arts Centre is throwing open its doors with big ambitions to take centre stage alongside the top dogs in Bristol’s theatre scene.

It was the vision of Bristol Grammar School’s headmaster to focus on the arts as well as the academic and create a multi-purpose facility for use by students and professional companies, with hopes of attracting people from “all walks of life”.

It's 25 years since women joined the ranks of the Magic Circle - but female magicians still only make up around 5% of members. With magic currently back in vogue and many female acts getting rave reviews, could the magical glass ceiling be finally breaking?

With the Annual Representatives Conference, our members went out to get discounts for those attending to venture into Bristol. However we were lucky to be offered a long term discount at the Greenhouse in Bristol.

Everybody who was anybody wanted to be on the Paul Daniels show - Mat Ricardo pays personal tribute

In 1970, Paul Daniels got his first shot on TV.

For that spot, he performed three tricks. During the first trick, he mentioned the other two, during the second he mentioned the first, and during the third trick he talked about the previous two. Legendary TV producer Johnnie Hamp took him aside after the filming and told him that he wasn't sure if he was clever or lucky, as he'd made his act impossible to edit, and they'd have to show the whole thing. In Paul's own words: ‘I was shocked…shocked...'

FINALLY! A LAW HAS BEEN PASSED THAT WILL ACTUALLY PROTECT UK MUSIC VENUES FROM DEVELOPERS

If you were to paint a picture of the landscape of music venues across the UK within the last decade, it would be a pretty bleak one. London alone has lost over 35% of its grassroots music venues since 2007, with the number of spaces programming new artists dropping from 136 to just 88 (as of late 2015). The situation is almost like an economic equivalent to Dorian Gray and his mirror: a particular area code becomes more desirable, while the people and venues that helped establish it in the first place pay the price.